Workers World Party

The Workers World Party (WWP) is a minor Marxist-Leninist communist political party in the United States, founded in 1959 after a split in the US Socialist Workers Party. The party categorized the Korean War as a class conflict, supported China as a workers' state, and supported the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. The WWP concentrated its energies on street demonstrations, and it conducted the first anti-Vietnam War protest on 2 August 1962, and the party supported African-American civil rights and women's rights with demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1984, the party supported Jesse Jackson when he attempted to run for President of the United States as a Democrat, only to support their own nominee when Walter Mondale was chosen to run in the election. The party would lose support due to its support for the pseudo-communist North Korean dictatorship and Saddam Hussein's fascist Iraqi Ba'ath Party, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation split from the WWP in 2004.